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1 Samuel 14:11-14 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

11. So both of them showed themselves to the Philistine outpost. ‘Look!’ said the Philistines. ‘The Hebrews are crawling out of the holes they were hiding in.’

12. The men of the outpost shouted to Jonathan and his armour-bearer, ‘Come up to us and we’ll teach you a lesson.’So Jonathan said to his armour-bearer, ‘Climb up after me; the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel.’

13. Jonathan climbed up, using his hands and feet, with his armour-bearer right behind him. The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armour-bearer followed and killed behind him.

14. In that first attack Jonathan and his armour-bearer killed some twenty men in an area of about half an acre.a

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